Creative approach to create new solutions, they should have ideas and initiative on how to transform, and a good grasp on how to manage technology and streamline what they do.
Key is that they can help to create that new framework and foundation and have that proven capability from experience where they were given that responsibility and were successful.
Cloud platform experience, ideally AWS over Azure exp
Terraform experience.
Understand from DevOps standpoint where the industry is headed, and new tools in the marketplace.